{"id":177768,"date":"2017-05-12T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scm.bz\/statements\/torture-under-the-assad-regime-germany-paves-the-way-for-first-syrian-cases-under-universal-jurisdiction-laws.html"},"modified":"2018-02-11T20:41:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T18:41:27","slug":"torture-under-the-assad-regime-germany-paves-the-way-for-first-syrian-cases-under-universal-jurisdiction-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scm.bz\/en\/torture-under-the-assad-regime-germany-paves-the-way-for-first-syrian-cases-under-universal-jurisdiction-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture under the Assad Regime: Germany paves the way for first Syrian cases under universal jurisdiction laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Syrian government led by president Bashar al-Assad is responsible for systematic and widespread torture targeting opponents and activists not only as a reaction to the protests in 2011. There are currently only a few avenues left to prosecute international crimes committed in Syria. One of them is the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows the German judiciary to become active and initiate first steps towards the road to justice without citizenship of the victims or perpetrators being a prerequisite.<\/p>\n

In March 2017 ECCHR together with seven Syrian torture survivors as well as the Syrian lawyers Anwar al-Bunni (Syrian Center for Legal Researches & Studies<\/a>) and Mazen Darwish (Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Speech<\/a>) submitted the first criminal complaint against six high-level officials of the Syrian Military Intelligence Service to the German Federal Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How to do justice for human rights crimes in Syria?<\/h3>\n

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